Citing Textual Evidence to Support a Claim

Citing Textual Evidence

By Dekitia Ruth

​Some text here about the topic of discussion.

​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq_BoPJsv-4

Read the paragraph on the next slide.

​If you were to write a summary of this paragraph, you would include the main idea and important details that support it. You would not mention that the octopus is related to the claim.

The first sentence includes the main idea: the octopus is a very intelligent animal. It explicitly states evidence, or details that support the main idea. An octopus can learn to open jar, solve mazes, or identify the ball that has a snack behind it. The evidence implies that the second octopus- learned by observing the first octopus.

When you are done reading raise your thumb!